Life Drawing July 5th
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010Hi All!
Another week and another life drawing class. And still with the black and white.
Just LOVING the charcoal right now, particularly the pressed stuff – it gives such a velvety rich black. Usually I start with the regular willow charcoal to get the basics down as it’s more workable – much softer and easy to rub out if you make a mistake. Then when it’s time to pay attention to the bits I want to highlight, I use the compressed charcoal. So much awesomeness. 
Attempting to format my pictures a bit better too as I’ve been very slack on that front ( 
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This weeks class was excellent as ever – I like the last piece the best as usual but not sure if it’s my favourite of all….was a tricky pose from where I was standing but it came out okay. The teacher does give me an awfully big head too so I usually leave class feeling rather good about myself….though often with that little voice in the back of my head squeaking, “Oooh but you can do BETTER Esz – you can do MORE. Tsk tsk never enough never enough”.
A couple of the 1 minute warm-ups – most of these were shocking so you only get to see these two:
A go at trying to show weight and volume with line only and the next one ‘sculpting’ with charcoal. This is done by first laying out the basic shape of the figure in a mid-grey and then ‘pushing’ the parts receding from you in a darker tone, and ‘pulling’ out the opposite by removing the charcoal from the paper. Hard to explain. I’m a bit meh about it.
Then, the last piece which is all YAY Hehee. Looks more like a landscape doesn’t it?
Oooh and of course, Puss wants a look-see
Hope everyone’s week has been treating them alright so far Til next time!
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